Quicken Backup/Restore Problem..

[TiziteLayinLow]

I am tryin to back up a friend of mines computer for a full format.. she needs her quicken backed up.. so I did that with just File -> Backup.. and it needed 2 floppy disks..

She bought Quicken 2004 Basic for after the format, and I wanted to make sure the floppies backed up the data so I installed the Quicken on another machine and tried a restore from those disks.. disk1 worked fine, and when it asks for disk 2.. i try that one and it just keeps asking for the disk #2...ive made several different backups off different brand new floppies.

I know absolutely nothing about Quicken but am I missing something here? The data is backuped off of Quicken 2002.. and she has 2000.. but wanted to upgrade to the 2004 Basic edition.

Any help is greatly appreciated, Thanks,
Matt Enderle

 

[squirtle24]

I'm confused. You backed up using 2002, but you're trying to restore with 2000? Or are you restoring with 2004? If you're trying to restore with 2000, then that might be the problem(incompatible). I'd try to restore with the same version that you did the backup with. If you're doing that already, you could try to backup to the HD and then copy it some other way.

If it still doesn't work, you can also get around using the Quicken backup system by copying the Quicken files directly from the Quicken directory. Default filename is qdata.qdf or something. If she's created other files, then you have to find out which ones those are. Personally, I'd just back up the entire freaking directory minus dll's and exe's just to be 100% safe.

Going to ramble and wax verbose here. It's late, and I'm tired, but I'm an insomniac atm, so I can't make it more concise...It used to be you could just copy the .qdf files, but I see a lot more files with new Quicken, so I don't know if they're all vital or not. I know with Quicken 2004, if I create a new account named MyAccount, it generates a MyAccount.qdf along with a bunch of other MyAccount.<randomextension> files. I dunno if your version does this or not. So to back up(without using Quicken's backup), I sort the directory by name and copy anything with "MyAccount" in the filename. And if your friend has MyAccount2, MyAccount3, etc, then you have to make sure you copy those as well.

Anyway, good idea to test it before you format.

 

[TiziteLayinLow]

she has 2002 installed on her computer and she gave me a 2000 cd.. she must have borrowed 02 from a friend, but i was trying 2002 backup to restore on 2000 and it didnt work thats why i told her to get 2004.. so then i tried to backup into a 2004 and it had the same error..

i can just backup the whole directory but then its still not guarenteed to get back into the new version.. how would a import it?

thanks for teh post

 

[ChunkiMunki]

Try copying the files from the floppy to your hard drive, then open quicken and select File-Open, and browse to the folder location and open the .QDF file. Quicken 2004 may convert the file to a different format for the upgraded program.